Global Village Academy Chinese Immersion: Lesson-planning in the Content-based Classroom provides hands on professional development for K-12 immersion teachers on how to develop lesson plans that include both content and target language learning. Particip ...

The STARTALK Hindi Audio-Visual Module Project introduces 36 thematic modules, which are based on real life situations with varied linguistic, social and cultural contents. The modules include situations in urban and rural locations with native speakers o ...

The NOVASTARTALK eTower is a research-based and literacies-focused OER-- an open, web-based educational resource designed to help Chinese students begin and/or continue their language studies when face-to-face options are not readily available. The techno ...

STARTALK Central has created sample curricula to provide support for student programs in the curriculum development process. The samples were created around two general themes—travel and identity—and provide sample templates which demonstrate how these th ...

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About STARTALK

STARTALK is a project funded by the National Security Agency and administered by the National Foreign Language Center at the University of Maryland. STARTALK’s mission is to increase the number of U.S. citizens learning, speaking, and teaching critical-need foreign languages, with programs for students (K-16) and teachers. MORE